| 742 halaman
...belong to all time, and stand aloft the land-marks of Literature. Fanny. And no wonder; for are we not " the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." Mrs. Smith. Exactly so. But if I tell you what I think of THE OOLHKN LEGEND, shall I pique curiosity... | |
| 1848 - 886 halaman
...roots are among the generations of the dead, and we draw nourishment from their graves. W <: are ' the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.' The thousandfold influences of the past environ us. Ihe words and thoughts, the reason and unreason,... | |
| 1854 - 532 halaman
...administrative experience. We were standing, at the annexation of the Punjab, in the position of men who are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." It was then well known that every theory had been tested in practice, that every crotchet had been... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 halaman
...benefit through a long succession of years that they have left a large inheritance to us who are " the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." The property thus stored up for our comfort and advantage does not consist of money, or houses, or... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 halaman
...science and refinement, trained in the highest culture, rich in the noblest endowments, — " These, the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — worship much as the barbarians of old did, and much as the savages do now, and fall prostrate before... | |
| 1860 - 564 halaman
...science and refinement, trained in the highest culture, rich in the noblest endowments, — " These, the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — worship much as the barbarians of old did, and much as the savages do now, and fall prostrate before... | |
| Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1862 - 328 halaman
...sordidness — for he had always a generous sympathy with the aspirations, the magnanimities of them who are the heirs " of all the ages in the foremost files of time ;" and because he gave them sympathy, he acquired over them influence, and received reverence. His... | |
| EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 halaman
...its own additions, and bequeathes the whole to its successor ; so that We of the present stand as ' The heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time.' 3. Knowledge is thus a growth. It begins in the common information of the uncultivated ; it develops,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 halaman
...well-educated humanity to cast aside all its traditions and disavow the training of its youth. They are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ;" and the world would hardly give them a hearing, if they did not so represent themselves. They must... | |
| Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1864 - 332 halaman
...those glorious associations which exalt a nation. Yet how shall we, spoilt children of civilization — The heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — duly learn to appreciate this greatest of gifts that the past has bequeathed to us. That excellent... | |
| |